His teeth and hair daily
withered
and decayed:
His ears and eyes gradually lost their keenness.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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the small
discredit
of a bribe
Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Draw our Olympia next, in council set
With Cupid, S r, and the tool of state :
Two of the first
recanters
of the house.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Five children on the long low
mattress
lie--
A nest of little souls, it heaves with dreams;
In the high chimney the last embers die,
And redden the dark room with crimson gleams.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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7
_datura_
D, Spengel
8 _ustul.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this
forehead
these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Yea, have heart
To tear the darkness of sin apart;
And find, beyond, our
comforted
sight
Flash full of a glee of fiery light,--
The gods the heathen know through sin,
The gods who give them the world to win!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Greece, who am I that should
remember
thee,
Thy Marathon and thy Thermopylae?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Euery man had there plente
Of claret wyne and pymente; 72
There was many a riche wyne,
In sylluer and in golde fyne;
Many a coppe and many a pece,
with wyne wernage & eke of grece;
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And many A noder ryche vessell
with wyne of
gascoyne
and of rochell.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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(hēo) wearð beloren
lēofum bearnum and brōðrum (_was
deprived
of her dear children and
brethren_), 1074.
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Beowulf |
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Wherfore
I rede, in thy going,
And also in thyn ageyn-coming,
Thou be wel war that men ne wit;
Feyne thee other cause than it 2520
To go that weye, or faste by;
To hele wel is no folye.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Still at the water's side she holds her place,
Her bodice bright is set with Genoa lace;
O'er her rich robe, through every satin fold,
Wanders an
arabesque
in threads of gold.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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My
self-love was triumphant, and I cast a proud glance at the civil
officials who were
whispering
among themselves, with an air of disquiet
and discontent.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Then Doullie myghte his bowestrynge drewe, 115
Enthoughte to gyve brave Tosslyn bloudie wounde,
But Harolde's asenglave stopp'd it as it slewe,
And it fell
bootless
on the bloudie grounde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Dear as remember'd kisses after death,
And sweet as those by
hopeless
fancy feign'd
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
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Poe - 5 |
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Angelo,
There is a kind of character in thy life
That to th'
observer
doth thy history
Fully unfold.
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Shakespeare |
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Why, when you see a God six days in hard work spend,
And then cry bravo at the end,
Of course you look for
something
clever.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread
tribunal
of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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She, in her face who doth my gone heart wear,
As lone I sate 'mid love-thoughts dear and true,
Appear'd before me: to show honour due,
I rose, with pallid brow and
reverent
air.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Orpheus
Orpheus
'Orpheus'
Pierre -Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, French, 1824 - 1898, Yale
University
Art Gallery
His heart was the bait: the heavens were the pond!
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Appoloinaire |
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In his popular and
devotional
_Auslegung
deutsch des Vaterunsers_ (1519) Luther makes no
reference to it.
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John Donne |
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" The General turned towards me, and
smilingly
said--
"Mr.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"
XLV
Tradition, thou art for
suckling
children,
Thou art the enlivening milk for babes;
But no meat for men is in thee.
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Stephen Crane |
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XVI
And the spirits of those who were homing
Passed on, rushingly,
Like the
Pentecost
Wind;
And the whirr of their wayfaring thinned
And surceased on the sky, and but left in the gloaming
Sea-mutterings and me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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To Rencesvals, to meet Rollanz I'll go,
From death he'll find his
warranty
in none.
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Chanson de Roland |
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To leave him to
malicious
tongues now.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Castor and Polydeuces, call to thee,
God's Horsemen and thy mother's
brethren
twain.
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Euripides - Electra |
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" The lady's cheek
Trembled; she nothing said, but, pale and meek,
Arose and knelt before him, wept a rain
Of sorrows at his words; at last with pain
Beseeching
him, the while his hand she wrung,
To change his purpose.
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Keats - Lamia |
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know him by
The ecstasy-dilated eye,
Not uncharged with tears that ran
Upward from his heart of man;
By the cheek, from hour to hour,
Kindled bright or sunken wan
With a sense of lonely power;
By the brow
uplifted
higher
Than others, for more low declining
By the lip which words of fire
Overboiling have burned white
While they gave the nations light:
Ay, in every time and place
Ye may know the poet's face
By the shade or shining.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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BEIDE CHORE:
Und wenn wir um den Gipfel ziehn,
So
streichet
an dem Boden hin
Und deckt die Heide weit und breit
Mit eurem Schwarm der Hexenheit
(Sie lassen sich nieder.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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To-morrow's noon again
Shall hide me, wooing long thy
wildwood
strain;
But now the sun has gained his western road,
And eve's mild hour invites my steps abroad.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Some things that stay there be, --
Grief, hills, eternity:
Nor this
behooveth
me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Arrange my dress--the
gorgeous
Indian shawl
That Philip brought me in our happy days!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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--
So may the
undoomed
easily flee
evils and exile, if only he gain
the grace of The Wielder!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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S
[Illustration]
S was Papa's new Stick,
Papa's new
thumping
Stick,
To thump extremely wicked boys,
Because it was so thick.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Though man's soul pass through
troubled
waters, Strange ways tp him are opened.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Num gravis
horrisono
polus obruit omnia lapsu,.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The crown of Poland, venal twice an age,
To just three
millions
stinted modest Gage.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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'Neath a golden cloud he stands,
Spreading
his impassioned hands.
| Guess: |
wringing |
| Question: |
for what does he reach? |
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Yea, she hath passed hereby and blessed the sheaves And the great garths and stacks and quiet farms, And all the tawny and the crimson leaves,
Yea, she hath passed with poppies in her arms Under the star of dusk through
stealing
mist
_ And blest the earth and gone while no man wist.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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]
* * * * *
ONE HUNDRED
NONSENSE
PICTURES AND RHYMES.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Shakespeare |
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So happy was he, not the aerial blowing
Of
trumpets
at clear parley from the east
Could rouse from that fine relish, that high feast.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Though
scarcely
half as big, demure and small,
He fights with dogs for bones and beats them all.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Troy roused as soon; for on this
dreadful
day
The fate of fathers, wives, and infants lay.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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"A poet ought not to pick Nature's pocket," he said, and it is for
colour and sound, in their most
delicate
forms, that he goes to natural
things.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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V 25 of the
Assyrian
text, [7]
where Gilgamish begins to relate his dreams to his mother Ninsun.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Twould soften hearts if they were hard as stone
To see glad
butterflies
and smiling flowers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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As old Toledos past their days of war
Are kept
mnemonic
of the strokes they bore,
So art thou with us, being good to keep
In our heart's sword-rack, though thy sword-arm
sleep.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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But as the brain,
Being lord of the body, is served by blood
So well that a hidden canker in the flesh
May send, continuous as a usury,
Its breeding venom upward, till in the brain
It vapour into enormity of dreaming:
So man is lord of life upon the earth;
And like a
hastening
blood his nature wells
Up out of the beasts below him, they the flesh
And he the brain, they serving him with blood;
And blood so loaden with brute lust of being
It steams the conscious leisure of man's thought
With an immense phantasma of desire,
An unsubduable dream of unknown pleasure;
Which he sends hungering forth into the world,
But never satisfied returns to him.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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at he euer come,
For he schal haue
fleschlich
lyf; forto a?
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| Question: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Know, sire, six years
Since then have fled; 'twas in that very year
When to the seat of
sovereignty
the Lord
Anointed thee--there came to me one evening
A simple shepherd, a venerable old man,
Who told me a strange secret.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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What's the
Businesse?
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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There is
now
scarcely
a wreck of it remaining.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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A GAME OF CHESS
The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra
Reflecting
light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in
paragraph
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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I do not know if passing a "Writer to the signet," be a trial of
scientific merit, or a mere
business
of friends and interest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Then shall I see her as I first beheld,
But
lovelier
far, and by herself excell'd;
And I distinguish'd in the bands above
Shall hear this plaudit in the choirs of love:--
"Lo!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The
destined
victim 'mid the snows
Of Algidus in oakwoods fed,
Or where the Alban herbage grows,
Shall dye the pontiff's axes red;
No need of butcher'd sheep for you
To make your homely prayers prevail;
Give but your little gods their due,
The rosemary twined with myrtle frail.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Triumphal arches, domes at heaven's doors,
That an
astonished
heaven sees full plain,
Alas, by degrees, turned to dust again.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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) Ever the
selfsame
dream!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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that
eloquent
voice
Surely I never heard--yet it were well
Had I but heard it with its thrilling tones
In earlier days!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Thy far blue eye,
A remnant of the sky,
Seen through the
clearing
or the gorge
Or from the windows of the forge,
Doth leaven all it passes by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Thus it is
That rolling ages change the times of things:
What erst was of a price, becomes at last
A discard of no honour; whilst another
Succeeds
to glory, issuing from contempt,
And day by day is sought for more and more,
And, when 'tis found, doth flower in men's praise,
Objects of wondrous honour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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'
But Sylyio soon had me
beguiled
;
This waxed tame, while he grew wild,
And quite regardless of my smart,
Left me his fawn, but took his heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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_Quand' io mi volgo
indietro
a mirar gli anni.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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"
'642 love to praise:'
a love of
praising
men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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There are two 'longe' s probably of the same
mean|ing
ryming, 91-2.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Earth - gap gaping and
never to be filled
- but by sky
-
indifferent
earth
grave
not flowers
wreaths, our
joys and our life
48.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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And I will bear along with you
Leaves
dropping
down the honied dew,
With oaten pipes, as sweet, as new.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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" 2
Pompaedius
was struck by this, as with a divine admonition from heaven, and, convinced by what Domitius had said, he immediately returned home.
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| Source: |
Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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Stretch not the hand of
Cromwell
for the prize
Meant not for him, nor his!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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But of all sadness this was sad,--
A woman’s arms tried to shield
The head of a
sleeping
man
From the jaws of the final beast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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If the fates intended to fall on her with auch
headlong
violence, they should have come in some other form.
| Guess: |
dire |
| Question: |
Why does the character believe that the fates should have come in a different form if they intended to fall on her with headlong violence? |
| Answer: |
Why does the character believe that the fates should have come in a different form if they intended to fall on her with headlong violence?
The character believes that if the fates intended to fall on her with headlong violence, they should have come in some other form. |
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"
"Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this
horrible
affair up.
| Guess: |
mysterious |
| Question: |
What happened? |
| Answer: |
The passage does not provide a clear answer to the question of what happened. It only includes a dialogue between the characters about proving the innocence of a cousin and questions related to the events of the previous night. |
| Source: |
Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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_"
[Soon after the death of Burns, the very handsome Miscellanies of
Brash and Reid, of Glasgow, contained what was called an
improved
John
Anderson, from the pen of the Ayrshire bard; but, save the second
stanza, none of the new matter looked like his hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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"
XLII
But nothing changed in them is seen,
All in the good old style appears,
Our dear old aunt,
Princess
Helene,
Her cap of tulle still ever wears:
Luceria Lvovna paint applies,
Amy Petrovna utters lies,
Ivan Petrovitch still a gaby,
Simeon Petrovitch just as shabby;
Pelagie Nikolavna has
Her friend Monsieur Finemouche the same,
Her wolf-dog and her husband tame;
Still of his club he member was--
As deaf and silly doth remain,
Still eats and drinks enough for twain.
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To Marc Chagall
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
On to the skin of a violin
A singing man a single bird
An agile dancer with his wife
A couple drenched in their youth
The gold of the grass lead of the sky
Separated by azure flames
Of the health-giving dew
The blood
glitters
the heart rings
A couple the first reflection
And in a cellar of snow
The opulent vine draws
A face with lunar lips
That never slept at night.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Then your father, who was brave as leopard or tiger, became
Governor
of
Ping-chou[39] and put down the rebel bands.
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Li Po |
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Thus gentle Lamia judg'd, and judg'd aright,
That Lycius could not love in half a fright,
So threw the goddess off, and won his heart
More
pleasantly
by playing woman's part,
With no more awe than what her beauty gave,
That, while it smote, still guaranteed to save.
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Keats |
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He was
defeated
with heavy loss
by the Illyrians, and died soon afterwards.
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defeated |
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How did he die? |
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Answer: His brother was defeated with heavy loss by the Illyrians and died soon afterwards. |
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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"
"My song sounds best in the green wood," said the bird; but
still she came
willingly
when she heard the emperor's wish.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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2 Connacorex did not approach Cotta, whom he regarded as
oppressive
and untrustworthy, but he made an arrangement with Triarius, which Damopheles readily consented to.
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deceitful |
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What did Cotta do to Connacorex? |
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Connacorex viewed Cotta as oppressive and untrustworthy, which is why he did not approach him regarding his plan to betray the city to the Romans. |
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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XXXV
His malady, whose cause I ween
It now to
investigate
is time,
Was nothing but the British spleen
Transported to our Russian clime.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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CONCERNING
THE PSYCHOSOMATICS OF THE ZEITGEIST
ears have the capacity to see, and the eyes can distinguish warm from cold.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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(And I
Tiresias
have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In
singleness
the parts that thou shouldst bear.
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Discord. |
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the
countries
of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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20
LXVII
Indoors the fire is kindled;
Beechwood is piled on the hearthstone;
Cold are the
chattering
oak-leaves;
And the ponds frost-bitten.
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soft |
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Who is by the fire? |
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A man wondering on lost love is by the fire. |
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Sappho |
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Even then sometimes,
When things acquired by the
sternest
toil
Are now in leaf, are now in blossom all,
Either the skiey sun with baneful heats
Parches, or sudden rains or chilling rime
Destroys, or flaws of winds with furious whirl
Torment and twist.
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Lucretius |
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I would have sent it
through the
universe
like a flash of fire.
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Yeats |
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The
other presses hotly on his
stealthy
errand, and now bent his way towards
Messapus' comrades, where he saw the last flicker of the fires go down,
and the horses tethered in order cropping the grass; when Nisus briefly
speaks thus, for he saw him carried away by excess of murderous desire;
'Let us stop; for unfriendly daylight draws nigh.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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